IT Best Practices: Episode 102 – We’ve discussed Intel’s role at the forefront of the transformation of the data center in previous episodes of this podcast. Intel Rack Scale Design is a flexible computing, storage, and network backbone that will [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 98 – The data center at Intel is the backbone of the company, critical to every aspect of business. To better meet Intel’s business requirements while providing internal customers with optimal capabilities and innovative business services, [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has used design best practices to create high-density energy-efficient data centers: a 1,100 W/square-foot cooling density and a 1,300 W/square-foot electrical density (10 times the industry average).

IT Best Practices: Our HPC environment, currently based on the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 and 8800 v2 & v3 product families, has supported a 90.21x increase in compute demand with a 64.4x increase in stability. Tape-out time was reduced from [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel’s silicon design engineers need significant increases in computing capacity to deliver each new generation of silicon chips. To meet those requirements, Intel IT conducts ongoing performance tests, using the latest Intel silicon design data, to analyze [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In Intel IT tests simulating the daily workflow of a silicon design engineer, a workstation based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family completed multiple, concurrent electronic design automation (EDA) application workloads up to [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Silicon design is one of the most critical business functions at Intel, and it requires significant computing resources. Larger and more compute-intensive design jobs require four-socket servers, which offer greater processing power and memory capacity to help [See the full post…]

IT Business Value: We use three key metrics to measure data center transformation success: meet growing customer demand (service-level agreements and quality of service) within constrained spending targets (cost-competitiveness) while optimally increasing the utilization of infrastructure assets (operational efficiency). Building [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 69 – In previous podcasts we’ve examined Intel’s overhaul of its data center strategy, and how Intel IT looks to run its data center service like a factory. One key aspect of that strategy is the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Episode 65 – Intel is a couple of years into an overhaul of its data center strategy. We’ve talked about that overhaul previously in this podcast series, but it’s a good time to catch up on the [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT provides compute services to the company, which means supporting the business of making computer chips. The standards are very high and Intel IT scrutinizes everything they deploy in the data center. Early testing of the [See the full post…]

The buzz around the new Intel Xeon E7 10-core microprocessor, such as here and here shows that enterprise hardware still commands attention. In this video, meet the engineer who put the chip through its paces and and ran it, as [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

The people of Intel IT are deploying next generation data centers that deliver increased compute power but use much less energy. It starts at the microprocessor level. The latest Xeon chips, which are at the heart of Intel’s newest servers, [See the full post…]

Accelerating server refresh, virtualizing our server resources, and utilizing data center virtualization have significantly reduced Intel IT’s overall energy consumption levels and compute costs. These efforts alone have driven us to realize 35% of our data center efficiency goal of [See the full post…]

In this video, two Intel engineers, Sudip Chahal and Shesha Krishnapura, talk about their findings in the comparison of high-end Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with the low-end ones. Sudip handled tests of the microprocessor series in enterprise tasks and [See the full post…]

In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the [See the full post…]

The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with [See the full post…]